The Economic Pay-Off from Public Education
On a trip back to Toronto this week I attended the launch of a new report commissioned by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, and written by Aimee McArthur-Gupta from…
Deficit
PC Party Platform Still With Highest Deficits and Not Approved By The Party
The PC’s released a platform today outlining the costs associated on their campaign promises but failed to provide any information on how these promises would be paid for. Mike Moffatt…
Ontario PC’s Running The Largest Deficit Projections in Current Platform
Mike Moffatt who is a director an the independent think tank Canada 2020, and an associate professor at the Ivey Business School, has come up with an interesting post comparing…
Will deficit hysteria finally pave the way for a sensible Alberta sales tax? Ummm … don’t count on it
PHOTOS: Never mind the political stuff, this is the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory, where astronomer Max Wolf discovered the Minor Planet Climenhaga in 1917. Below, not in the order in which…
Ontario is not sinking into deficit: Better public services can be won
The Financial Accountability Office (FAO) predictssignificant deficits over the next several years – despite also predicting significant economic growth. Using the government’s accounting method, the FAO is predicting budget deficits…
Going for a New Record, Perhaps?
Source: CBC News: Sask. Now Projects $1B Deficit for 2016-2017Source: CJME News: $1B Deficit Forecast for Saskatchewan by End of April I did say I would get to the growing…
Going for a New Record, Perhaps?
Source: CBC News: Sask. Now Projects $1B Deficit for 2016-2017Source: CJME News: $1B Deficit Forecast for Saskatchewan by End of April I did say I would get to the growing…
Health Care and the Budget: Not Much
Health care and hospital funding: Despite significant new revenue and lower than expected debt costs, health care spending is almost exactly identical to the amounts planned in last year’s Budget…
Paul Martin Gives Tommy Angry Beard a Well-Deserved Kick in the Ass.
Paul Martin was the finance minister who plucked the federal government from the brink of fiscal chaos. It was a tough time for all including the provinces, even the Canadian…
The CPC, liars since 2006…
Yeah, forget about the Parliamentary Budget Office saying that we are already in deficit. Like, what do they know? The Harper Reform Party – lying comes so naturally to them.…
Ontario’s answer to the deficit: 35 years of revenue cuts
In a recent long-term report on the economy, the Ontario government recognized that own-source Ontario government revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) has declined over the last…
Rising inflation and a shrinking Ontario deficit?
Revenue prospects for this year: An earlier post looked at poor job creation in Ontario and the impact that might have on obtaining the revenue goals the government has set…
Deficit? Public spending ain’t the cause. Revenue, however…
With the election over, pressure to cut public programs has become quite intense. In almost all of the corporate owned media someone is barking on about it. Another option —…
Canada’s New Parliamentary Budget Officer Doesn’t Disappoint – Stephen Harper
After former Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page locked horns with the Conservatives over their voodoo math, he was replaced by someone whose inexperience would be much easier to manipulate. Not…
How do they run things? Budget Lead-Up #nlpoli
Finance minister Charlene Johnson will read the new provincial budget speech on Thursday. In keeping with the provincial Conservative tradition, though, they’ve been announcing bits and pieces of the budget…
The rise of Bitcoin: and the challenge to the global domination of big money
The following article was written on October 25. I wanted to read it over once more before publishing it, then got busy with other things and forgot about it. In…
Obama tries to regain the narrative on the Sequester
When Obama decided to give back 5% of his salary to the Treasury, he made a political move not done since Herbert Hoover. In so doing, he undoubtedly aims to…
Federal Budget 2013 Must Focus on Job Creation, Not Cutbacks, CAW Says
By: Canadian Auto Workers Union | Press Release TORONTO – The CAW is calling on federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to focus on job creation, not more spending cutbacks in…
Ontario’s 2012 austerity measures causing an economic slowdown: Report
Press Release | Posted Mar 18, 2013 Ontario’s experiment with austerity in 2012 is contributing to an economic slowdown that demands a different course of action in 2013, says a…